The Rising's Executive Women's Retreat
Step out of the day-to-day and decide what deserves your focus in 2027.
Four days at CIVANA to uncover leverage and opportunity inside the business you've already built, make the decisions you haven't had space to make, and leave with clear priorities and a focused 90-day roadmap.
This experience is intentionally intimate. A limited number of places remain.
CIVANA Wellness Resort & Spa has been recognized by:
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World's Best Award — Top 3 Destination Spa
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Readers' Choice Award — Top 10 Best Spa Resort
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2020–2025
- You're the one people look to for the decisions, the direction, and the answers.
- You're carrying decisions about growth, offers, team, AI, revenue, and what you actually want next — and no one on your team can make those decisions for you.
- You've built something successful, but the number of opportunities has started to create its own kind of noise.
- You don't need another conference full of information. You need space to think, experienced women to pressure-test your ideas with, and enough distance from the business to see what you can't see from inside it.
Imagine having four days to look at your business — and your life — from a little farther away.
To decide what you want this next season to look like. To explore where AI can create real capacity and leverage. To uncover opportunities already sitting inside what you've built. And to talk it through with accomplished women who understand the level at which you're operating.
This is time for the conversations, questions, and decisions that are difficult to give your full attention to at home.
And when you return?
You return with clearer priorities, a stronger sense of what deserves your energy, and a strategic plan already taking shape.
More clarity. More leverage. More energy for what matters most.
Four days designed to give you what's hardest to create at home: perspective, meaningful conversation, expert guidance, restorative space — and time to turn what you discover into a plan.
Wednesday — Arrive + Exhale
Welcome Dinner • Sound Bath • Intention Setting
Arrive at CIVANA, settle in, and let yourself shift out of the pace of everyday life.
We'll begin around the table with a welcome dinner and the women you'll be sharing the next four days with. From there, we'll move into a restorative sound bath and intention-setting experience designed to help you get quiet enough to hear what you actually need from this time.
Settle in. Connect around the table. Let yourself arrive fully.
Thursday — Reimagine What's Possible
Life Design: Building Around What Matters Now • Post-Traumatic Growth with Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn • AI Integration with Carol Grant
Thursday invites you to look at your life and business through a wider lens.
With Stacey Kauffman, you'll explore Life Design and the bigger questions underneath the business: what you want more of, what matters most now, and what you want the business you're building to make possible.
Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn will lead a powerful conversation around Post-Traumatic Growth and what becomes possible when challenge changes you rather than simply slows you down.
Then AI Integration Expert Carol Grant will help you look practically at where AI can create more capacity, leverage, and efficiency in your business — while protecting the judgment, creativity, relationships, and human connection only you can bring.
AI in service of more capacity, stronger decisions, and the business and life you actually want.
Friday — Find the Opportunity
Hidden Revenue: Turn What You Already Have Into New Income with Chandler J. Esq., The Lethal Lawyer • Strategic Planning Foundations
Start by looking at the value you've already created.
Chandler J. Esq., The Lethal Lawyer, will help you identify overlooked opportunities inside your existing business — including intellectual property that may be licensable, assets that could work harder for you, and negotiation strategies that can help you capture more of the value you're already creating.
Then we'll begin translating everything you've uncovered into your strategic planning foundations.
Ideas become priorities.
Possibilities become decisions.
Saturday — Build What Comes Next
Strategic Plan Intensive • Integration • Closing Circle
Saturday is where the pieces come together.
You'll move through a facilitated strategic planning intensive designed to turn what you've learned, questioned, and uncovered over the previous days into a focused plan for what comes next.
A plan designed to move with you when you get home.
A clearer set of priorities, decisions, and next steps rooted in the business — and life — you actually want to build.
We'll finish with time for integration and a closing circle before departures.
Every Day — Access, Conversation + Space to Choose
Not every breakthrough happens during a session.
Each day includes dedicated Office Hours for questions, coaching, conversation, and real-time support around your specific business.
And just as intentionally, there is space left open.
Use it for a long conversation with another woman in the room. Compare notes over coffee. Explore a collaboration. Take a wellness class. Book a spa treatment. Sit by the pool. Hike. Journal. Nap. Think.
The open space is yours to use well. Choose what would serve you most that day.
Everything designed to help you think clearly, decide differently, and leave with a plan you can actually implement
Strategic Planning Intensive
Leave with your 2027 priorities translated into a focused 90-day roadmap — so you know what moves first, what can wait, and where your time and resources will create the greatest return.
Value: $3,500
Peer Executive Room
Spend four days in conversation with accomplished women who bring experience, perspective, expertise, and connections you can't manufacture on a Zoom call. Pressure-test an idea over breakfast. Find a collaborator by the pool. Hear the question that changes your thinking over dinner. Leave with stronger decisions and relationships that continue well beyond CIVANA.
Value: $3,000
AI Leverage Integration Session
Identify where AI can give you back capacity, strengthen how your business operates, and support the work you're already doing. You'll leave with a practical framework for where AI belongs in your business — and how to begin using it intentionally.
Value: $2,500
Daily AI + Strategic Implementation Office Hours with Stacey + Carol
Bring your actual business questions into daily office hours and begin turning your retreat decisions into workflows, systems, projects, and AI-supported processes while you still have Stacey and Carol in the room.
Value: $4,500
Two Private Guest Expert Sessions
Chandler J. on licensing, IP, negotiation, and monetization; Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn on resilience, post-traumatic growth, and leading forward through challenge.
Value: $5,000
Three-Night Stay at CIVANA
Your private room at a world-class wellness resort in the Sonoran Desert.
Value: $3,500
Private Group Experiences + Dinners
Your sound bath, guided desert hike, and any other group-only experiences you're including — plus curated group dinners designed for real conversation, connection, and the relationships that continue after the retreat.
Value: $2,000
Daily Wellness Classes
Movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and other CIVANA offerings available each morning.
Value: $450
One-Day Spa Pass + Treatment
A 60-minute massage or facial, plus spa access.
Value: $350
Resort Dining Credit
For the meals or quiet moments attendees want to enjoy on their own terms.
Value: $150
Total Value of the Experience
Stacey Kauffman
Stacey is an executive advisor, facilitator, and speaker who helps executives and entrepreneurs create capacity and growth, so they can lead their business instead of just reacting to it. Prior to founding the SK Collective executive advisory two years ago, Stacey spent 20+ years in broadcasting and media, in a billion-dollar media company.
She's sat on both sides of the table and advised businesses at every stage, from solo entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies, advising on strategic growth planning, operational systemization and leadership development.
Stacey founded The Rising to fill a gap she experienced: a safe space for women to come as their whole selves, and to be able to process, think, grow, and explore all they're carrying personally and professionally, without judgement or isolation.
Founder, The Rising & SK Collective
The conversations that help you see opportunities you can't see alone.
Chandler J., Esq.
Chandler J., Esq., known as The Lethal Lawyer, is an attorney and negotiation strategist who helps business owners protect what they've built, negotiate from a stronger position, and uncover revenue opportunities hiding inside their existing business.
She has spent years in high-stakes negotiations involving contracts, licensing, intellectual property, brand partnerships, and complex business decisions. Her experience includes negotiating with and against major brands including Disney, Instagram, Penguin Random House, and Kraft, while also building a million-dollar law firm of her own.
At The Rising's Retreat, Chandler will help you look at your business through a different lens: What have you already created that could be protected, licensed, monetized, or negotiated more strategically?
You'll leave her session with a sharper understanding of where value may already exist inside your business — and where one stronger decision could create meaningful new opportunity.
Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn
Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn brings decades of experience in health, education, research, and recovery to a conversation about what happens after life changes you.
A nurse practitioner, professor emerita at Sacramento State, and creator of the strength-based recovery system Metahab®, Dr. Joyce developed her work through both professional research and her own recovery following a catastrophic personal event.
Her work focuses on post-traumatic growth: not simply returning to who you were before a difficult experience, but recognizing the strength, capacity, and perspective that can emerge because of what you have lived through.
At The Rising's Retreat, Dr. Joyce will guide a thoughtful conversation about resilience, identity, and moving forward with intention.
You'll have space to consider what past challenges have taught you, what you may still be carrying, and what becomes possible when you stop measuring yourself only by what happened — and begin recognizing what you have become because of it.
Carol Grant
Carol Grant is a growth strategist, operator, and AI advisor who helps leaders use technology to create more capacity without giving up the judgment, creativity, relationships, and leadership that make their businesses work.
Over more than 20 years, Carol has worked across Microsoft, Zillow, high-growth technology companies, and venture-backed businesses, translating ambitious strategy into practical growth. Before today's AI boom, she served as an AI Product Marketing Lead at Microsoft, helping shape the company's early approach to AI for workplace productivity.
Today, she advises growth-stage technology companies, is building an edtech platform for neurodiverse learners, and leads Agency in Motion, an AI and go-to-market workshop for women founders.
At The Rising's Retreat, Carol will help you move beyond the question, "How can I use more AI?" and instead ask a better one:
Where can AI genuinely give me back time, capacity, and leverage?
You'll identify practical places where AI can reduce friction and support execution — while getting clearer about the work, decisions, and relationships that should remain firmly in your hands.
What changes when you finally have the space to think.
"Discomfort. Reflection. Connection. This retreat gave me space to pause, realign, and step into my power — both personally and professionally."
"I invest in things like this all the time, and I rarely walk away with something new about myself. This time I did."
"The connections and the transformation were priceless."
"Every detail was thought of. The resort was beautiful, the classes were great, and the people were even better."
One experience. Two ways to reserve your place.
Your $6,500 investment includes the full four-day Rising Retreat experience at CIVANA. Choose the payment option that works best for you.
Every option includes the full four-day experience: private accommodations at CIVANA, facilitated strategic work, expert guidance, daily access to Stacey and Carol, curated experiences, and intentional space to think and integrate.
This retreat is intentionally intimate. Only a few spots remain.
Coming with a friend? Ask about the shared room rate. Questions before you register? Check out the FAQs below, or Ask us here.
Before you reserve.
Who is this retreat for?
Women in senior leadership who don't need more ideas. You need time and space to find clarity — and maybe even reconnect with yourself. That's why the programming is intentionally limited each day: so you have time to actually integrate what you're learning, plus rest, think, and practice real self-care.
I already have a coach/mastermind. How is this different?
The Rising's Retreat isn't designed to replace your coach, mastermind, or existing support.
It gives you something that's hard to create inside your normal routine: four days of distance from the day-to-day, a room of accomplished women who can challenge your thinking, expert perspectives you may not otherwise have access to, and protected time to make decisions about what comes next.
You won't leave with more information to consume. You'll leave with clearer priorities, new possibilities to explore, and a focused 90-day plan you can take back into the support systems you already have.
I'm busy. Why take four days away from my business?
Because some decisions are too important to make in the five minutes between meetings.
The retreat is intentionally designed to give you enough distance from the daily demands of your business to see it more clearly. You'll have facilitated strategic work, expert guidance, meaningful conversation, and protected space to think without constantly switching back into execution mode.
The goal isn't to step away from your business for four days just to rest. It's to return knowing what deserves your attention, what can wait, where new leverage may exist, and what you want to move forward over the next 90 days.
What's not included?
Airfare and ground transportation to and from CIVANA Wellness Resort & Spa in Carefree, Arizona (Phoenix Sky Harbor is the closest major airport). Any spa services or activities beyond what's listed above are available at CIVANA at your own cost.
Is this a vacation or a working retreat?
Both, on purpose. You'll have 3 hours a day of mastermind leadership programming with Stacey and guest experts, and the rest of your time is built for rest, reflection, and connection — not packed with more to do.
What if I don't want to do something on the schedule?
The Rising Retreat is a no-obligation, no-judgment space to do you. Every activity and session is offered — none of them are mandatory.
What if I have dietary restrictions?
You'll receive a pre-retreat intake form closer to the date, where we'll ask about dietary needs and anything else that helps make sure your experience is a great one.
Can I bring a friend or colleague?
Yes. Bring a friend or colleague along — each of you reserves your own spot through the options above. Reach out through the contact form below if you'd like help coordinating your reservations together.
What if I can't pay in full right now?
A payment plan is available — 4 monthly payments of $1,699. Your first payment reserves your seat.
Is my deposit refundable?
No. Deposits and payments are non-refundable. With only a handful of seats available, every reservation holds a spot another woman doesn't get. Full terms are provided at checkout.
Do you have a referral program?
Yes! For every retreat referral who books, you'll receive a complimentary 1:1 executive coaching call with Stacey — a $1,111 value.
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Four days. One room that gets it.
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